As one season begins to shade ever so slightly–or perhaps heavily, depending on your latitude–new birding opportunities open up. If you focus on first...

This week’s featured wine at Birds and Booze isn’t our first pinot noir, nor is it our first Barn Owl (in fact, this marks...

Strange as it may seem, this is not an entry into a “most boring blog headline” contest. Rather, it is derived from an obscure...

Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes,...

My area of central Mexico has a true monsoon climate. That means that we have little or no rain through the winter months, and...

Over a month had gone by since the birth of my first child. When you don’t know anything about babies, the initial 30 days...

Some weekends last longer than others. Whether you enjoyed the extra day the United States sets apart to honor former Presidents or spent your...

Brush Bronzewing–Phaps elegans are one of the bird species that we rarely encounter, because we are rarely in the right location in Australia. During our...